Author:  MrPetovan  Posted:  Feb 20, 2023 09:23  Subject:  Re: Sellers abusing buyer email address  Viewed:  43 times  Topic:  Help Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card MrPetovan (964) Location:  USA, New York Member Since Contact Type Status Jun 2, 2019 Seller Store: MrPetovan's Clearance Sale

Thanks for the reply, and I yearn for a North American GDPR although I may have to wait a while. In the mean time I was wondering if BrickLink itself had such a policy. I have put both these stores on my Dislike list but I wish there was some sort of bigger liability for BrickLink sellers who do that. In Help, yorbrick writes:    In Help, MrPetovan writes:    Hi all, twice in the past ten days, I have received a promotional email newsletter from two different North American sellers I once bought from despite never having agreed (or even been asked) to be sent those. These emails are sent outside of the BrickLink store newsletter feature that rightfully needs the buyer’s consent before being sent to them. This is a violation of privacy and it has to stop. Is there anything in the BrickLink rules about abusing buyers’ email address that’s communicated during the order process? Thanks, Hypolite In the EU and UK there is - GDPR. You can tell a seller to stop sending marketing messages and that you will report them if they continue to as you did not consent to the collection of your email address for marketing purposes. If you know it is them, you can also least favourite the store and set up a filter to delete all future mail from them. I tend to do that for all spam, rather than trying to unsubscribe from mailing lists.

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Re: Sellers abusing buyer email address - yorbrick (1185)

[...] In the EU and UK there is - GDPR. You can tell a seller to stop sending marketing messages and that you will report them if they continue to as you did not consent to [...] (16 months ago, Feb 20, 2023, to Help)

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Re: Sellers abusing buyer email address - yorbrick (1185)

There is actually a line about what sellers can do in the privacy policy but if anything it is against GDPR. Sellers must also abide by local laws though. (URL) Buyers/Sellers: [...] (16 months ago, Feb 20, 2023, to Help)

Re: Sellers abusing buyer email address - peregrinator (786)

[...] We don't have GDPR in the USA but we do have CAN-SPAM and I would be surprised if sellers are adhering to it. (16 months ago, Feb 20, 2023, to Help)

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